[5] In that role, he directed the SCP and advised cabinet and parliament on the social issues of our time, putting them in a broader societal context.

[6] Putters regularly wrote opinion pieces that appeared in Het Financieele Dagblad, and de Volkskrant named him the most influential person of the Netherlands in 2019 and 2020.

He often commented on growing dissatisfaction with politics and the government among citizens as well as an increasingly fierce public discourse.

He criticized budget cuts of the second Rutte cabinet, and he called for the creation of a new social contract between citizens and "the elite" to allow for societal, economic, and ecological progress.

Selected by the Party for Freedom (PVV) – the winner of the November 2023 general election – Putters was tasked with investigating the most viable governing arrangement.

New Social Contract (NSC) had left talks with the PVV, BBB, and VVD under the previous informateur, Ronald Plasterk, while declaring it would still be open to a minority or extraparliamentary cabinet.